For Josie Angeny and Sandra Elsadek, watching the rebuilding of Georgia gymnastics play out on social media brought laughter. “No one knew what was going on,” Angeny recalled. “Everyone was going crazy.”
With 11 newcomers, Georgia improved its ranking from a season ago, ending the year at No. 20 after finishing 30th previously. Angeny, Elsadek, and Vanessa Deniz were three transfers into the GymDogs’ program and added depth, stability, and leadership, along with consistent scores across all four events.
A change of heart and two entrances to the transfer portal led Josie Angeny to choose to take her fifth year at Georgia after almost committing to stay at Kentucky. After a second senior indicated she would like to come back to the Wildcats, Angeny decided she needed to look elsewhere for an opportunity. “I love [Kentucky], but I’ve been here four years, I was committed four years before that, and I had the opportunity to go to another school, so why wouldn’t I take it?”
After entering the transfer portal, Angeny recalled that she initially wasn’t sure she was going to get offers from anywhere, but after a big school emailed her within hours of her entrance, she breathed a sigh of relief. “That was confirmation [that] people are interested. They gave…
